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3rd Avenue Shell
Category: Automotive Gas & Service Stations Gas & Service Stations [Edit]
611 E 3rd AvenueSan Mateo, CA 94401
(650) 344-5332
2 reviews for 3rd Avenue Shell
2 reviews in English
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Review from kim n.
4/19/2007
Let's face it. Pensinsula gas is wicked expensive. Which makes this place unusual. It's right off the freeway, where most will gouge you, but it's actually cheaper than most the gas stations around. Don't even try and buy in San Carlos! Anyways, it's not cheaper than Sunnyvale/Santa Clara but relative to everything else around the area...
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Review from Chris R.
7/5/2009
Could you please shut the heck up when I am trying to refuel? Your video pumps are annoying as hell. Every time I pull into your stations I feel like Tom Cruise in "Minority Report" the way your pumps start with their advertising blaring out at 100+ dbm every time a customer try to refuel!
Tonight had also thought to give this location another change. Maybe the advertising has stopped since my last visit?". So now after 4 years I give the 3rd avenue station in San Mateo a chance. As I pull in under the covering I see them. The white red and orange ogres waiting with their video screen. My gorge rises and I feel the adrenaline beging to course through my system to a greater degree. As I pass a few of the ogre I notice the screens are moving an not all of them in the same way. Still I have steadied my nerve to try and give them another change.
As I stop to refuel at the ogre on the end I I can hear something. But still I hold my mind steady with and iron will. Then I pull our my wallet, insert the card into the ogres mouth. The ogre starts wailing some two dimensional script advertising in my direction. By then my entire demeanor has turned to stone except for one flaming blade of emotion that directs my fist squarely to the center of the video screen.
Unfortunately this Shel's ogre pump is tough and continues to send fourth it deafening message falling onto what is the dry landscape of my consciousness. Still, I hold out some hope like a drunkard's spouse there may be some way to stop the soul sucking cacophony issuing forth from the ogre pump. Into Shell's hut I go to talk to the ogres handler. Once inside a question posed to the poor zombie is responded with a total lack of understanding and ability to shut the ogre up.
I thank the Shell's zombie and ask where the nearest non-Shell fueling station is located. Fortunately the zombie is able to tell me where another ogre-less station is located. I exit Shells hut and leave the Shell ogre unfed.
Shell, No thanks for your wailing ogre fuel pumps.
Shell, no thanks for your tainted convenience store items.
Shell, you no longer appreciate your customer base and instead view them as marketing mindless marketing targets
Shell, not only will you not see my business again in my lifetime, I will also relay my poor customer experience at your sorry stations with the hope of recruiting business to any other fuel supplier out there.
May all of your ogre pumps remain unfed from any customer dollars in the future!
76, thank you for the serenity of your quite and calm non-video fueling stations. You may be a little more expensive but 76 is worth it int order to keep from having to raise a mental shield on every visit.
Progressive Insurance, Thank you for the auto club services that allow me to pass by all Shell stations without fear even when my fuel gauge indicates empty.
